Sentence examples for vicious figures from inspiring English sources

The Chechen insurgents appear only as shadowy, vicious figures, slitting their captives' throats or trading them as slaves.

Ironically, when Turk's career as a YBA was taking off and his Sid Vicious figure was the talk of the town, Warhol's catalogue was in decline (partly precipitated by the Warhol foundation desperately undervaluing his work to avoid onerous death duties).

Toward the end of his life the complex demands of a vast family (he had at least nine wives) led him into difficulties regarding the succession, and it was then that he developed into the gruesome and vicious figure that Christian tradition has made so familiar.

One after another is knocked off, with venal and vicious authority figures a favorite source of pain.

In addition to its devil protagonist, the novel is laced with Christian symbolism that includes a vicious Jesus figure and a Mary whose chastity is very much open to question.

In many diseases (e.g. lupus or type 1 diabetes ) it is considered that patients with the disease are more prone to sepsis, but we suggest here that (as with stroke ) it may more likely be the converse that is truer: patients suffering from latent infections are in fact more prone to acquiring, having, or exacerbating the state of these other conditions, in a vicious cycle (see Figure 9).

Beloved public figure committed vicious sexual crimes?

It's a vicious cycle and a figure eight.

A beloved public figure committed vicious sexual crimes?

As an obsessed Sex Pistols fan who was writing a report on Sid Vicious for school, Sebastian figured out that Dorrit must have gone to the hotel to see where Sid allegedly murdered his girlfriend and manager, Nancy Spungen.

It sometimes feels as if Europe is caught in a vicious circle where dismal economic figures and identity problems make communities ever more suspicious of one another.